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Middle Israel: Person of the year
Our person of the year 5774 may well have been an Arab, yet another
protagonist of the gruesome epoch that has been unfolding about us since
autumn 2010.

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Syria's Islamist rebels fear US could hit them next
When the United States opened its aerial campaign against the Islamic
State group in Syria this week, its first salvo also hit an al-Qaeda
cell it says was planning terror attacks - a move that has injected
more chaos into the conflict and could help Syrian President Bashar
Assad.